Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 756 853
Rank change year-on-year +125 +97 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 81 151 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 65 137 84
10th Percentile £44,900 £41,250 £42,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £42,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.51% +7.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £70,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% - +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,981 94,642 91,089
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 94.70% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,187 67,606 57,639
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £53,059
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.76% +6.12%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +96 80 £70,000 +21.74% 59
UK excluding London +97 48 £70,000 +21.74% 41
London +128 32 £80,000 +28.00% 23
Work from Home +79 28 £71,991 +14.67% 49
North of England +11 15 £65,996 +5.12% 19
North West -23 13 £71,991 +65.50% 11
South West +111 10 £72,500 +61.11% 9
East of England +37 10 £70,000 +55.56%
South East +71 7 £47,500 -26.92% 8
Midlands +44 6 £46,000 -16.36% 5
West Midlands +61 4 £46,000 -23.33% 2
Yorkshire +60 2 £52,500 -16.38% 4
East Midlands +8 2 - - 3

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (91.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (82.72%) Azure
3 44 (54.32%) Microsoft
4 41 (50.62%) Windows
5 37 (45.68%) Terraform
6 35 (43.21%) Kubernetes
7 33 (40.74%) PowerShell
8 32 (39.51%) Windows Server
9 31 (38.27%) DevOps
9 31 (38.27%) Firewall
10 30 (37.04%) CI/CD
11 26 (32.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (30.86%) Azure Certification
13 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
13 22 (27.16%) SQL Server
14 21 (25.93%) Performance Optimisation
14 21 (25.93%) Cloud Security
15 20 (24.69%) Finance
16 19 (23.46%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (23.46%) Microsoft Intune
17 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (20.99%) VMware
17 17 (20.99%) Microsoft Exchange
18 16 (19.75%) Cost Management
19 15 (18.52%) Migration
19 15 (18.52%) Docker
19 15 (18.52%) GCP
20 14 (17.28%) Palo Alto
20 14 (17.28%) Power Platform
20 14 (17.28%) Fintech

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (9.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.47%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.23%) IIS
4 1 (1.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 67 (82.72%) Azure
2 15 (18.52%) GCP
3 14 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (17.28%) Power Platform
4 13 (16.05%) Azure AKS
4 13 (16.05%) Azure Logic Apps
4 13 (16.05%) PowerApps
5 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (12.35%) AWS
6 10 (12.35%) Entra ID
6 10 (12.35%) IaaS
7 8 (9.88%) PaaS
7 8 (9.88%) SaaS
8 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (7.41%) Datadog
8 6 (7.41%) Route 53
9 5 (6.17%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (4.94%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (4.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.27%) Firewall
2 11 (13.58%) DNS
2 11 (13.58%) VPN
3 8 (9.88%) DHCP
4 7 (8.64%) SD-WAN
4 7 (8.64%) WAN
5 6 (7.41%) NAS
5 6 (7.41%) SAN
6 5 (6.17%) VSAN
7 4 (4.94%) HTTPS
7 4 (4.94%) Network Security
7 4 (4.94%) VLAN
8 3 (3.70%) LAN
9 2 (2.47%) SNMP
10 1 (1.23%) BGP
10 1 (1.23%) Internet
10 1 (1.23%) MPLS
10 1 (1.23%) Unified Communications
10 1 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (27.16%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.23%) GitLab
General
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Finance
3 7 (8.64%) Banking
4 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.47%) Automotive
5 2 (2.47%) Games
5 2 (2.47%) General Ledger
5 2 (2.47%) iGaming
5 2 (2.47%) Legal
5 2 (2.47%) Publishing
6 1 (1.23%) Advertising
6 1 (1.23%) Law
6 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) ARM Templates
2 5 (6.17%) .NET
2 5 (6.17%) Middleware
3 3 (3.70%) SAML
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.47%) Web Services
5 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.23%) Django
5 1 (1.23%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.23%) Flask
5 1 (1.23%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 5 (6.17%) Clustering
4 3 (3.70%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.47%) Mobile Games
5 2 (2.47%) Online Games
5 2 (2.47%) Sports Betting
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.23%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (50.62%) Windows
2 32 (39.51%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.81%) Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Android
4 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (91.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (38.27%) DevOps
3 30 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 26 (32.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (25.93%) Cloud Security
5 21 (25.93%) Performance Optimisation
6 19 (23.46%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (19.75%) Cost Management
9 15 (18.52%) Migration
10 14 (17.28%) Fintech
11 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Management
12 11 (13.58%) Agile
13 10 (12.35%) High Availability
13 10 (12.35%) Problem Management
14 9 (11.11%) Incident Management
14 9 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
15 8 (9.88%) Configuration Management
15 8 (9.88%) ITIL
15 8 (9.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.74%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.35%) SQL
3 9 (11.11%) Python
4 5 (6.17%) Bicep
5 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (30.86%) Azure Certification
2 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.94%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.47%) Degree
6 1 (1.23%) CCNA
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.23%) MCITP
6 1 (1.23%) MCSE
6 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) GDPR
1 2 (2.47%) HIPAA
1 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.47%) NIST
1 2 (2.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Docker
2 14 (17.28%) Active Directory
3 7 (8.64%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (8.64%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.17%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 37 (45.68%) Terraform
2 35 (43.21%) Kubernetes
3 19 (23.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (17.28%) SCCM
5 10 (12.35%) Ansible
6 5 (6.17%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.70%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.23%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.23%) Istio
9 1 (1.23%) SCOM
9 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (54.32%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.99%) VMware
3 14 (17.28%) Palo Alto
4 10 (12.35%) Google
5 7 (8.64%) Oracle
6 4 (4.94%) Cisco
7 3 (3.70%) Veeam
8 2 (2.47%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.47%) Tenable
8 2 (2.47%) Varonis
9 1 (1.23%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.23%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.23%) F5
9 1 (1.23%) Facebook
9 1 (1.23%) Okta
9 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.23%) Zscaler